Depending on what topic you are teaching, we have numerous lesson plans, PowerPoints and videos available free for your use. Please feel free to download any of the resources in the menu below.
Birds and birding
PowerPoint: Birding 101: How to go birding and enjoy it!
PowerPoint: 10-Things-You-Should-Do-to-Help-Birds
Lesson Plan: Birds in the Food Web
Lesson Plan: Category, Chart and Graphs
Lesson Plan: Mapping Birds
Lesson Plan: Poetic Birds
Lesson Plan: Speaking for the Birds
Lesson Plan: Storytime
Lesson Plan: Venn Diagram
Lesson Plan: Home-made Binoculars
Lesson Plan: Birding Life List
Lesson Plan: Pinecone Bird Feeder
Pollination and pollinators
PowerPoint: Power of Pollinators
Lesson Plan: Pollinators, Meet Your Plants
Prairies
PowerPoint: Prairies 101 – Nebraska’s 4 Prairie Ecosystems
PowerPoint: Prairies and Prairie Food Webs
Lesson Plan: Measuring Prairie Plants
Lesson Plan: Mapping the Prairie Food Web | Prairie Food Web Images (two files)
Lesson Plan: Prairie Field Guides
Lesson Plan: Rainfall on the Plain
Lesson Plan: Prairie Nature Journals
Animals and habitats (lower elementary)
PowerPoint: Animal and Habitats
Lesson Plan: Little & Big Matching Game | Little & Big Matching Cards
Lesson Plan: Wants vs. Needs
Lesson Plan: My Favorite Animal
Lesson Plan: Habitat Scavenger Hunt
Water and wetlands
PowerPoint: Wetlands of Nebraska
Power Point: Water & Wetlands
Lesson Plan: Marsh Market | Marsh Market Food Web Images
Lesson Plan: Pollution Prevention Door Hangers
Lesson Plan: Weather Begins With the Sun
Lesson Plan: Water Filtration
Images: Nebraska Watersheds Map
Images: Nebraska Rivers Map
Life cycles
PowerPoint: Life Cycles
Lesson Plan: Which Came First | Which Came First Images
Lesson Plan: Plant Life Cycle Buffet
Soils and worms
Video: Building a Classroom Compost Bin (2:44 minutes)
Video: Changing the Soil in your Worm Bin (1:21 minutes)
Video: What do Worms Like to Eat? (2:05 minutes)
Video: Worm Experiment: Light or Dark? (1:29 minutes)
Video: Worm Measurement (1:38 minutes)
PowerPoint: Soils
Lesson Plan: Measuring Worms
Lesson Plan: Mud Painting
Lesson Plan: Soil ID Book
Lesson Plan: Soil Recipe
Lesson Plan: We All Need Soil
Lesson Plan: Soil Planting
Scavenger hunts
Scavenger Hunts are a great way to get your students outside and engaged in nature. They also help work on observation skills and often lead to exploration, questioning, and adventure – all good things!
Early childhood
Early elementary
Upper elementary
Middle school
Threatened and Endangered Species
Lesson Plan: Nature’s Network
Lesson Plan: Rare Species Class Book
Lesson Plan: T&E Masks
Lesson Plan: Bottleneck Genes
Lesson Plan: Picketing for Plovers
Lesson Plan: Whoopers on the Rise
Lesson Plan: Trial for Terns
Plants
Lesson Plan: Plant Press
Lesson Plan: Leafy Creations
Lesson Plan: Leaf Rubbings
Fun Activities
Lesson Plan: Sounds Scavenger Hunt
Lesson Plan: Cloud Gazing
Lesson Plan: Nature Journal
